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Poetry is not a code to be broken but a way of seeing with the eyes shut Picture Quote #1

When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak at the same time, poetry gets in your mouth. If people hear you, it gets in their ears. If you think that way and write at the same time, then poetry gets written. But poetry exists in any case. The question is only: are you going to take part, and if so, how? Picture Quote #1

Poetry, I’m often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of poetry Picture Quote #1

If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more primitive and original level where the child, the animal, the savage, and the seer belong, in the region of dream, enchantment, ecstasy, laughter. To understand poetry we must be capable of donning the child’s soul like a magic cloak and of forsaking man’s wisdom for the child’s Picture Quote #1

The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment. Ritual grew up in sacred play; poetry was born in play and nourished on play; music and dancing were pure play... We have to conclude, therefore, that civilization is, in its earliest phases, played. It does not come from play... it arises in and as play, and never leaves it Picture Quote #1

Poetry is priceless... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you’re quite poor Picture Quote #1

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Men who had poetry in their soul come silently into the world and live quietly down the years, and yet when they are gone no moon in the sky is lucid enough to compare with the light they shed when they are among the living Picture Quote #1

I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people Picture Quote #1

I do not see why the loss of faith in the known image and symbol in our time should be celebrated as a freedom. It is a loss from which we suffer, and this pathos motivates modern painting and poetry at its heart Picture Quote #1

For life is an expression, our unconscious actions the constant betrayal of our innermost thought. Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal. The tiny incidents of daily rouitine are as much a commentary of racial ideas as the highest flight of philosophy or poetry Picture Quote #1

Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry Picture Quote #1

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted Picture Quote #1

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The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets Picture Quote #1

True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to everyone Picture Quote #1

For a scientist must indeed be freely imaginative and yet skeptical, creative and yet a critic. There is a sense in which he must be free, but another in which his thought must be very preceisely regimented; there is poetry in science, but also a lot of bookkeeping Picture Quote #1

Before our eyes is fought a battle of symbols... for there can be theatre only from the moment when the impossible really begins and when the poetry that occurs on the stage sustains and superheats the realized symbols Picture Quote #1

Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women’s hair rhapsodically described, women’s faces acclaimed in odelike language Picture Quote #1

I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy seems to strike my need for sadness. There is poetry in the dying of the year and mystery as well Picture Quote #1

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She is unable to dream, think or love. In a woman, poetry never comes naturally, but always as the result of education. Only the woman of the world is a woman; the rest are simply females Picture Quote #1

When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry Picture Quote #1

It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life Picture Quote #1

It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person’s eyes alone! Picture Quote #1

If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism and marginality and so constituted a kind of acknowledgment of my own preposterousness, admitting my bad faith in good faith, so to speak Picture Quote #1

Poetry is much more important than the truth, and, if you don’t believe that, try using the two methods to get laid Picture Quote #1

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To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life Picture Quote #1

Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light Picture Quote #1

I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions, and traumatic events that come with being alive Picture Quote #1

I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy Picture Quote #1

Poetry will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know Picture Quote #1

The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect, tell the secret and keep it Picture Quote #1

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Poetry is not a code to be broken but a way of seeing with the eyes shut (Poetry Quotes) When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak at the same time, poetry gets in your mouth. If people hear you, it gets in their ears. If you think that way and write at the same time, then poetry gets written. But poetry exists in any case. The question is only: are you going to take part, and if so, how? (Poetry Quotes) Poetry, I’m often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of poetry (Poetry Quotes) If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more primitive and original level where the child, the animal, the savage, and the seer belong, in the region of dream, enchantment, ecstasy, laughter. To understand poetry we must be capable of donning the child’s soul like a magic cloak and of forsaking man’s wisdom for the child’s (Poetry Quotes) The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment. Ritual grew up in sacred play; poetry was born in play and nourished on play; music and dancing were pure play... We have to conclude, therefore, that civilization is, in its earliest phases, played. It does not come from play... it arises in and as play, and never leaves it (Poetry Quotes) Poetry is priceless... a way of keeping yourself feeling rich and civilized even when you’re quite poor (Poetry Quotes) Men who had poetry in their soul come silently into the world and live quietly down the years, and yet when they are gone no moon in the sky is lucid enough to compare with the light they shed when they are among the living (Poetry Quotes) I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people (Poetry Quotes) I do not see why the loss of faith in the known image and symbol in our time should be celebrated as a freedom. It is a loss from which we suffer, and this pathos motivates modern painting and poetry at its heart (Poetry Quotes) For life is an expression, our unconscious actions the constant betrayal of our innermost thought. Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal. The tiny incidents of daily rouitine are as much a commentary of racial ideas as the highest flight of philosophy or poetry (Poetry Quotes) Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry (Poetry Quotes) Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted (Poetry Quotes) The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets (Poetry Quotes) True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to everyone (Poetry Quotes) For a scientist must indeed be freely imaginative and yet skeptical, creative and yet a critic. There is a sense in which he must be free, but another in which his thought must be very preceisely regimented; there is poetry in science, but also a lot of bookkeeping (Poetry Quotes) Before our eyes is fought a battle of symbols... for there can be theatre only from the moment when the impossible really begins and when the poetry that occurs on the stage sustains and superheats the realized symbols (Poetry Quotes) Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women’s hair rhapsodically described, women’s faces acclaimed in odelike language (Poetry Quotes) I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy seems to strike my need for sadness. There is poetry in the dying of the year and mystery as well (Poetry Quotes) She is unable to dream, think or love. In a woman, poetry never comes naturally, but always as the result of education. Only the woman of the world is a woman; the rest are simply females (Poetry Quotes) When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry (Poetry Quotes) It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life (Poetry Quotes) It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person’s eyes alone! (Poetry Quotes) If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism and marginality and so constituted a kind of acknowledgment of my own preposterousness, admitting my bad faith in good faith, so to speak (Poetry Quotes) Poetry is much more important than the truth, and, if you don’t believe that, try using the two methods to get laid (Poetry Quotes) To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life (Poetry Quotes) Poetry is the thread that leads us out of the labyrinth of despair and into the light (Poetry Quotes) I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions, and traumatic events that come with being alive (Poetry Quotes) I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy (Poetry Quotes) Poetry will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know (Poetry Quotes) The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect, tell the secret and keep it (Poetry Quotes)

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